[CLUE-Tech] top and system load

[Dan Harris]

I had been taught "rule of thumb" that if my servers were pushing constant 
3's, they were being pushed too hard... But obviously that definition is 
going to be different for every application..  

-Dan

On Friday 10 May 2002 11:35 pm, David Anselmi wrote:
> Ed Hill wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Upgrade?  Almost certainly not.
> >
> > See whats causing the load and try to alleviate and/or understand it?
> > Sure.
> >
> > I just fired up nine xterms and ran "yes" in every one.  So I now have a
> > load average (as reported by top) of:
> >
> >   load average: 9.37, 8.08, 4.39
>
> I agree with Ed.  "The load averages are the average number of process
> ready to run during the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes."
>
> The load averages tell you how many processes want to run each time they
> get a chance.  Many may not because they are waiting for something like I/O
> to finish. I don't really know how to interpret the load average, but I'd
> guess that a high load average *and* high cpu use is bad.  One or the other
> might not be.
>
> man top anyone?
>
> Dave
>
>
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